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Thanks so much everyone for your knowledgable replies! So... looks like I probably want to leave it there, in which case. How would you go about making the light switch fit/look better? I've attached a new photo. A bit of caulk would be fine, but its quite a large gap really. Can you get...

I'm looking to replace a light switch in my living room as it juts out from the wall, so I opened it up to see what was going on. There's a really old looking light switch 'box' back there attached onto a piece of wood inside the lath and paster wall. I say box... it's round. My guess is that...

Not a metered supply, and no extra plumbing being done. Literally just replacing an old stop cock from the 1920's with new one in a slightly different location. Someone mentioned double check valve might be because the old house shares a stop valve out on the road with multiple houses? Here's a...

haha it DOES look weird just now, but it should fit fine under a planned cabinet. fingers crossed

Sure, here's a photo. It looks to be basic Screwfix hardware.

Well I mean - Both stop cock and check valve are brand new. And I presume the check valve has moving parts and more likely to make sound. Plumber will be having a look anyway, I just wanted a little more information to arm myself incase he fobs me off with "they all do that".

Ah! Yes it's an old 1920s ex-council house with shared mains. So that sounds like the likely reason. However - It's brand new, so it won't be worn out yet.

I've had my old stop cock repositioned. When I had a look at the work, a double check valve has been installed directly after the stop cock. Is this normal? I ask as it's making quite an annoying vibrating sound whenever any tap is on in the house. So I'm wondering if the plumber needs to...

Nice website. Images in the articles are pretty small though. Having them clickable to view full size would be great

You could try https://www.showerpart.co.uk/. I recently had good quick customer support from them

I think I prefer the removal method, But are gullies like this typically for standing water? Or are they ever needed for air-draw? From looking at Google Street View's various years back in time - it looks like it's been sitting proud of the surface for at least the last 12 years... Not much...

Hello, I have a gulley at the corner of my UK house that's getting damaged due to footfall. The plastic grid is damaged and so is the 'hopper' (not sure that's the correct term)'s rim. It's on the main path around the house and is surrounded by gravel. 2 issues - if I replace the plastic grid...

Hi there, I have some bubbling paint on a hall wall. There's a shower on the other side of this wall so I presume there's water getting through the grout and evaporating through this side? 1. What's the weird fuzzy crunchy white material that's appearing and pushing the paint off the plaster...

Can confirm after getting Dynorod out, that this was indeed a blockage in the pipes outside of my boundary. Good news is that I found the problem, bad news is that 12 hours after clearing the pipes, the blockage has returned. :-/

Hi, I'm after some 2nd (qualified or non-qualified) opinions on my current plumbing issue. I have a bathroom with a really slow draining bath, a normally draining sink and a slow draining toilet where the water after flushed goes very high in the bowl. The bath when empty, gurgles after...

Heh, I didn't explicitly say, but yes, I've had some books n junk on them during the year.

Just thought I'd make a reply on this post as my shelves have been up now for just under a year. Fixing method deemed poor seems fine so far. No visible sag. I used this tool to give me a little more confidence in my levels of sag: https://www.woodbin.com/calcs/sagulator/ I have 10 pieces of...

Fixing method IS poor, you're quite right. It would be absolutely sufficient if shelves were only 1m wide. But they're 1.4m. I did buy brackets, but was put off by the dot n dab wall. Would you go this route?

I'm about to put up a set of 5 heavy solid oak shelves. They weight about 7kg each with things like books to be sitting on them. I've decided to mount to the sides of the brick + plaster alcove they're going in rather than the back, which is a dot and dab wall. I'll be using using 6mm x 50mm...

I totally missed the "To" at the start of your previous message! :LOL: Sorry mate, cheers.